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Old 25th February 2012
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Originally Posted by daemonfowl View Post
you mean I can choose some other filesystem instead of default 4.2BSD when setting up disks?
never thought this is possible ..
You're right!

For bonus points, you will find that installation will ensure there is one MBR partition of type A6 before the operating system can be installed. Therefore, while OpenBSD can access filesystems other than FFS, it must boot on FFS.

Now, going back to your original question (which are really two questions...):
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can I install *BSD on a fat32 formatted usb ?
  • OpenBSD can be installed on USB drives. These USB devices can be originally formatted as FAT32.
  • However after installation, either the entire drive (as a single MBR partition...) will be converted to FFS, or at least one MBR partition on the USB drive will be converted to FFS.
You may then ask "Well, Slax can be installed on FAT32 (which I haven't confirmed, but I assume you are correct...), why can't OpenBSD?"

I suspect that it is possible, but I would guess no developer finds booting onto FAT32 to be useful enough to actually do the work. OpenBSD supports over a dozen hardware platforms. Staying generic is far more important, but that is simply an opinion.

Last edited by ocicat; 25th February 2012 at 12:24 AM.
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